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IMPORTANT RAILROAD RULING. ( OAST I.I M \M> C. ft W. C. MUST l.HWI I Uli K \ 'IKS. Ra?road Commission Orders Thai They Operutc as Singh' System for Purpose of Assessing Charges. A resolution adopted by the rail? road commission requires that thI Atlantic Coast Line Hallroad Com I pany and the Charleston ft Western Carolina- Hallway are required to la operated In this State as one and the same system and that rates based on continuous mileage shall apply over both roads jointly. Several weeks ago the commission issued an order for the roads to show cause why this step should not be taken. The action of the commission was based on statements in the an? nual report of the Coast Line to the effect that the road controlled the Charleston ft Western Carolina. At the hearing the representatives of the systems contended that thev would lose about $4,000 annually should rates based on continuous mileage be used. The effective date of the order Is May 15. At the first hearing before the commission the Beaufort representa? tives were not present on account of ? the Illness of some members. A spe? cial meeting f<>r this delegation was held Monday. The Beaufort business men asked that the rates on continu? ous mileage be applied. It was stated that unless relief was given that the trucking Industry of the Beaufort f territory would be destroyed. It was shown that the truckers of that sec? tion would be saved over $26,000 an? nually. It was also shown that Jack? sonville, which Is 200 miles farther away from the Eastern markets than Beaufort. Is receiving a lower rate by , I cents on the crate. Beaufort is lo ' cated on the Charleston ft Western Carolina railway. The following is the law under which the commission acted: "Bee. $5. All connecting railroads doing business in this State, and un I der the management or control, by I lease, ownership, association or oth? erwise, of one and the same person, firm, corporation or association, shall for purposes of transportation, In ap? plying freight and passenger tariffs, be considered as constituting but one and the same road, and the rate shall be computed as upon parts of one and the same road, and the rate shall be fixed by the railroad commission." The following Is the resolution of the commission: "Thst the Atlantic Coast Line Rall ^ road Company and the Charleston ft ^ Western Carolina Railway Company, being connecting railroads, doing business In this State, and both roads being under the control by ownership of stock of one and the same corpo? ration, to wit. the Atlantic Coast Line ^ Company, shall for purposes of ? transportation In applying freight and passenger tariffs be conslde.ed as constituting but one and the same road, and that an order of this com? mission be issued accordingly, to be effective on and after May 15. 1910." i I'WOHVBIJ; TO PROHIBITION. State Supreme Court Rules on the Appeal Prom Ander-ton. Anders >n. Man h 9.? The decision ban .td down by the ?? ist Supreme f Court l~. the ease of the city of An? derson vs. Andrew Johnson wili n?sat much for the enforcement of prohibition. In the spring of 1909 AndreA- Johnson, a negro hack driv? er, of this city. w.?s found guilty of selling wr Iskey. by a Jury In tho mayor's court, and a sentence of $100 / or thirty days on the streets was passed on him. Johnson's attorney appealed to the circuit court on several grounds, among them being that the mayor's court has no Jurisdiction to try liquor s^-that the a rase**-that the mayor's Jurisdiction Is co-ordinate with that of magis? trates. The clnult court In September. 1*09. Judge Robert Aldrleh presid? ing, sustained the appeal In the cas? . deciding that the rnavor's court hid ^ no Jurlsdl- tlon to try the case. Th? elty appealed the case to the Supreme Court, and the decision Just handed down r. ? ersed the circuit court, and affirms that of Mayor She rard. This means that municipal courts can trv liquor ea??cs. and will, I therefore, play a largo part In the ? enforcement of the laws against Il? licit selling Ths enforcement of these laws Is dependent largsfv agog the munici? pal courts, and had the dcc|*|on of the court been that these courts s could not try the cases, prohibition would have .ecehjpd a knock-out blow In South Carolina The John? son case will now be heard on Its merits at the approaching session of the criminal court to convene her?? on the 27th Inst. I A contemporary tails the action of a policeman who t aught a woman who jumped from a third story win? dow a "remarkable fettf ? He did n?>t catch her on his toe*, did he?? News snd Courier. prohibition in i)i;.\i> i;\um:st Bislmpxlllo Hotel Kec|M?r Convicted For "Receiving" Liquor. I Ishopvllle, March 9. -The CO?ft '?T General Sessions VM convened iure by Judge J. C, Klugh Monday morning of this week, Alter a i/en eicus charge to the grand jury a number of hills of indictment were Ptndcd out The usual nun.bor of true bills were found against negroe* for such petit offences as assaults and battery, househreaking and larceny, etc. Pour cases for murder are on the docket for trial against the fol? lowing persons, each charged with one killing: T. S. Hyatt (white,) An? thony Williams. Clarence McKeiver, and Julius Wilson, the last three be? ing negroes. A case of special interest here, and, no doubt of general interest to the State, was tried here today. This was the State vs. James R. DuRant. Mr. DuRant is the proprietor of the Du? Rant Hotel, and was tried on the charge of "unlawfully receiving al? coholic liquors." Lee county voted out the dispensary last August, and on the 15th of November went under the operation of the Prohibition Act of 1909. The evidence showed thai on the 20th of December DuRant re? ceived by freight a barrel containing trv. nty-flve quarts of rye liquor. There the State rested. The defense offered no testimony. The judge charged the jury that the Indictment stated an offence, and If they believ? ed it was proved, they should find the defendant guilty. The jury v\jry promptly found a verdict of gui?y, and the defendant was sentenced to four months on the public works, or a fine of $200. The same defendant was Indicted on another siml'ar charge, alleged to have been done on December 27. He at once plea'led guilty, and was given a like sentence on that charge, which, hOWeVtJ?, was j'bi'prnded until further ordv of the court. The Act of 1909, under which this indictment was brought, plainly pro h?Vts the receiving of liquor for any purpose, but many lawyers and lay men have argued that suc\ a mean? ing was not Intended, and that to * urrant a conviction it mu?t tt shown that the stuff was received for an unlawful purpose, and no attempt was made to prove such purpose. Therefore, this conviction means that It is Judicially determined that the Act meanB just what It says, and that It Is unlawful to receive, keep or store liquors for any purpose. Tt, therefore, looks as if this law pro? vides a remedy against the much talked of evil of ordering whiskey. All that is necessary are juries that will convict. Length of l>rcan?s. Three physicians were discussing the matter of the length of dreams. "One afternoon," said one of them "I called to see a patient, and much to my satisfaction, I found him sleep? ing soundly. I sat by his bed, felt of his pulse without disturbing him aid sj Uted for him to awaken. After a ffSj minutes a junk dealer's cart with discordant ringing bells turned Into the street and as their first tones reached us my patient opened his eyes. " 'Doctor,' he said, 'I'm glad to see you and awfully glad that you woke me, for I have been tortured by a most distressing dream that .must have lasted for several hours. I dreamed that I was sick, as 1 am, and that my boy came Into the room with a string of most horribly sounding sleighhells and rang them In my ears, while I hadn't power to move or ? ik to him. I suffered tortures for what SPPTtd |0 he an interminable time. I'm so glad vou woke me. "The ringing of those hells for one nd had caused all of that dream and just at the Waking moment." Follow Banner's Example. The city of Sumter has taken a ; re, .??and HKainst tin- illegal selling of liquor, and numerous offenders srsrt irie.1 in the i-ity court there \at:t 1 erk 'n every instance, where the evidence warranted it, the Rae order Imposjod heavy fin. s or an alterna? te ? Sentence on the ehalngang. See? ing the way things w? re going, others i?f ilia "liters" cams up and pleaded guilty. The K?me 0OCM city Is to be congratulated OH Its stand for de? cency and law? and other towns In the State could follow Siimter's ex? ample with propriety. In t??o many places the prohibition act is ? farce, and citizens of the towns know It, rot the violations continue, As pro? hibition has heen voted by t major? ifv of the people in every County, It can he enforced.?Bamberg Hee?*d. Things are not always what they i am. Pha< drua COVGHfl THAT HANG ON. hi thai start In the fall and i hang On Until spring are sure trouble broed< rs unless checked and cured. Bronchitis, pneumonia and consump? tion are the direct result. Foley's H mi' v and Tar euros the sought steps th* hard breathing and heals and BOOthOS the Inflamed iiir pSSOSgSi Re? fuse substitute* Blbert's Drug Store. FE?RtD MARCH ON GUY HALL POLICE stop EFFORT AT BIG demonstration. Day Generally Qu let?Desperate Ef? fort Being Made to induce others Tu Leave Work?Despite Few Mi? nor Disturbances, More Cars Oper? ated Than on Any Other Day of Strike. Philadelphia, Pa., March 10.?If William Penn, from his lofty perch on the top of the City Hall tower, had turned slightly to the left and glanced up North Broad street this afternoon he could have obtained a bird's-eye view of disorder that would have disturbed his peace-loving soul. Featureless except for one thing, the sixth day of the general strike in sym? pathy with the striking car men of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com? pany witnessed an attempt to make the centre of the city the scene of a big demonstration in aid of the strik? ers' cause. The police blocked the move by ex? ercise of "high-handed methods" and "brutal," unwarranted force, the strike leaders claim, in statements is? sued tonight; in prosecution of law, Justifiable means and with no more force than was necessary to check, in its inciplency, what might have re? sulted in a serious disturbance of the peace, the authorities assert." "March on the City Hall" is a slo? gan which has been heard before in disturbances here. Suspecting that the crowd of ten thousand or more of persons who had been prevented from holding an open air meeting in the National League Ball Park would take up the indicated line of march today, the authorities took efficient measures to prevent the Invasion of the city's central districts by what it was feared might prove a turbulent mob. The committee of ten estimated the number who gathered for the meet? ing at sixty thousand, and declare that the police rode into these crowds and inflicted injury upon peaceful cit? izens without Just cause. The action of the authorities, the committee pre? dicted, would have the effect of "ce? menting the forces of the working men not only of this city, but of the whole country." RICH FARMER to GANG. Judge Gary Gives Brutal White Man Eighteen Months For Beating Aged White Woman. Marion, March 9.?Judge Ernest Gary, presiding in the (court of gen? eral sessions, yesterday delivered a rude shock to W. H. Brigman, a well-to-do and extensive farmer, by giving htm a sentence of one year and six months on the chaingang, without the option of paying a fine for beating an old white woman who had been cooking for him. When asked by Judge Gary what he had to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, Brigman stated as his only excuse that he had to go away from home and that he ordei d the old woman not to leave the premises until his return; that she did not obey his orders and during her absence from the place his house was burned. On Brlgman's return he cut a stout switch and adminis? tered a severe beating to the old woman. Brigman has been Into countless shooting and fighting affairs before this, but heretofore he has managed to buy off most of the prosecutors with money, and in that way has managed to keep out of court. In this case he had worked on the old woman until he had succeeded In getting her to drop the case, but Monday morning Solicitor Wells handed out an indictment to the grand jury, which brought in a true bill. When the case was called for trial Bligman stated that he had decided to plead guilty, doubtless thinking that Judge Gary would impose a nominal fine. However, Judge Gary ooncluded that Brigman needed a little drastic treatment, and accord? ingly gave him the chaingang sen? tence. The action of Judge Gary has met with universal approval, and it will have a very salutary effect. Except for a few minor cases, the only other ease which has been com pleted so far is that of a negro, Wil? son Bethea, charged with murder. The jury brought Ir a verdict of manslaughter. Sentence has not yet been Imposed itl this ease. PoatoflHcc clerk \rrested. Wilmington, x. c. March 10.?Ev? erett McAllister, l".> years old, for the past si\ years general delivery clerk in the Wilmington postofftce, was ar reated today by Postofflce Inspectors John C. Koons and .lames 15. Robert? son, ( barged with abstracting letters containing money and other valuables and converting them to his own use, his alleged peculations covering a period of several months. Marked coins from a test letter were found <>n his person when taken into cus? tody. ||e is a native of Indiana and was formerly a private In the United States army. WILL JERK UP "5?M AXD "53." Lazy A. C. L. Trains to Receive At? tention of Commissioners. Columbia, March 9.?"How's 52?" asked the weary traveler down at the union station a few days ago. "Late, as usual," was the response. Which state of affairs has led the South Carolina railroad commision to adopt resolutions ordering an investi? gation of why 52 should'nt move a bit faster. Then there's 53, going in the other direction. "Fifty-three" is just about as lazy as her "near-numoer," and the commission is going to look Into her schedule also. These two Atlantic Coast Line trains move between Charleston and Greenville, and between Greenville and Charleston, stopping by Colum? bia, incidentally on both trips. There have been complaints recently that the trips are made with not much regard to the schedule time. This is what the commission is going to in? vestigate. The resolution adopted today is to the following effect: "Resolved, That this commission proceed at once to investigate the fre? quent failures of Atlantic Coast l ine passengers 52 and 53 to make sched? ule time between Charleston and Greenville, and to take such action as may be deemed necessary to se? cure improvements in the service." The commission has aiso request? ed the Atlantic Coast Line officiate to furnish it with a detailed statement of the movements of these trains for the last three months. From the de? tailed movement the commission will be able to find out, it i:? thought, where the trouble lies In the route3 of Nos. 52 and 53. READY FOR CALHOCN CNVEIL ING. Senator Lodge Will Pay Tribute to Great Carolinian. Washington, D. C, March 10.?Ev? erything is in readiness here for the presentation of the Calhoun statue to the Government Saturday, in Stat? uary Hall. Governor Ansel will pre? side, while in the senate and house Senator Smith and the memebrs of the South Carolina delegation will be the principal speakers. In addition to the members of the South Carolina delegation who will speak on this occasion, Senator Lodge a fine scholar, and perhaps one of the best educated men in America, will also pay a tribute to the memory of the great Calhoun. As a historian, Senator Lodge is known everywhere, and the fact that he has agreed to become one of the speakers on this occasion will no doubt draw a large crowd. , Since Sculptor Ruckstuhl placed the Calhoun statue in the capitol, many persons have admired it and re? call at the same time that perhaps since the foundation of this govern? ment, South Carolina has had as many great men in congress as any other State in the Union?with her Lowndes. Cheves, Hayne, Preston and MeDuffle. Although the capitol is full of the statues of great and brilliant men it is doubtful if any of them surpass the man In whose honor the .atest mark of esteem has been erect el?John C. Calhoun. VAST SUM GOES VI? IN SMOKE. Set Earnings American Tobacco Company $S0,448,S4M Last Year. New York, March 10.?Net earning of the American Tobacco Company for the fiscal year ending December 81, last, aggregates $30,44 8,384, after deducting all charges and expenses. A surplus of $4,472,S72 Is left after subtracting interst on bonds and divi? dends on the preferred and common Stocks. The company now has a to? tal surplus of $43,449,140. During the year it purchased $1, 709,578 of Its own bonds and had them cancelled. The net earnings for the year were $1,74 3,9 79 greater than for the previous year. At the anuual meeting of stock hold ^rs today the retiring board of directors were re-elected. Col. Lumpkiii Extremely III. Asheville, X. C, March 10.?Col. W. W. Lumpkln Is gradually dying. All hope was gone at midnight. He was taken ill Friday and gradually grew worse, lie was suffering from a chronic constitutional trouble, and all medical science has failed to Strength? en him. With him are his wife, Mrs. E, li. Glenn, a daughter, and two sons, the Rev, Hope Lumpkln and Alva Lumpkln. Morris Lumpkln wa? bere two days ago, but returned to Columbia to look after his father's business. ?Fully nine out <>f every ten cases of rheumatism is simply rheumatism <>f the muse?es due to cold or damp, or chronic rheumatism, neither of which require any internal treatment. \ll that is needed to afford relief is the free application of Chamberlain's Liniment Give it a trial. You are certain to be pleased with the quick relief which it affords. Sold by W. W. Slbert W DIDN'T 00II. WOULD HAVE LOST THE GOOD WILL OF SOUTH. "Near Sensation" in National Capital Dies A-borning?Eleported Taft Would D ue With Negro?But He Didn't. Washington, March 11.?There was a "near-sensation" in Washington Tuesday, whose rumor shook the po? liticians to their shivering souls and rattled the dry bones of Dixie. Along about noon the story was whispered about the capltol that last night President Taft was to be the guest of honor at a banquet given to Professor W. S. Scarborough, presi? dent of Wilbeforce University, Xenia, Ohio. The British minister, it was said, and several prominent senators had received invitatione and had hastened to respond that "personal and press? ing engagements" prevented their at? tendance. But the president owed a political debt to Dr. Scarborough for services in the national campaign and was going to pay it. Within an hour the gossips and alarmists were buzzing like bees and every chief Faber in the press gal? leries was whetted for keen and in? cisive service. I "It is worse than the Booker Wash? ington dinner," was the general ex? pression, "and the president will lose in an hour all the good will he has won in the South during his entire admlnstration." "It will lose the last hope of the Re? publican party for reinforcements from the South," was the politician's comment. And the Southern correspondents said little, but It was evident from the nervous twitch of their pencil fingers that they were getting ready to burn the wires. At 6 o'clock came from the White House the information that the presi? dent was to dine at home with his family and after dinner was to take part in some public exercises in one of the city churches In the interest of Wilbeforce University, whose negro president had written an open letter to his race in the last campaign In advocacy of Mr. Taft's election. And so the sensation "died a-born ln' *' and left the wonder "if it was so quickly done for, what on earth was it begun for," but the incident is provocative of comment. As evidence of continued race prejudice it is con? firmatory of the recent speech of Dr. W. E. Dubois, at the Saturday meet? ing of the Republican club. Xo more of that. But behind It looms the shadow of the vast political campaign of the Re? publican party, of which It is the op? ening gun. The president's State, Ohio, is the pivotal State in the battle preceding the presidential campaign. The fight for the next governorship of Ohio is ?oing to be one of the most tremen? dous and spectacular fights of this generation. If the president loses his own State he will be handicapped if not discredited for 1912. GOVERNMENT WILL LOAN TENTS Resolution Passed in House and Now Goes to the President. Washington, March 10.?In the house today Representative Hull, from the committee on military af? fairs, called up the house joint reso? lution authorizing the secretary of war to loan certain government tents and other material for the use of the Confederate reunion to be held at Mobile, Ala., April 2G-28. The reso? lution was passed unanimously. It now goes to the president for his sig? nature. This is the measure which was so violently opposed in the senate by Senator Heyburn, of Idaho. After nearly two hours' debate the bill providing for the erection of em? bassies for American representatives abroad was defeated by a vote of 151 to 134. Remember! Our superb array of jewelry and watches makes buying easy. Everything is in perfect taste and everything may be fully relied upon. We sell you nothing that we don't know all about and we tell you all we know about the goods we sell you. Trices reason? able. W. A. Thompson, Jeweler and Optician. Phone 333. - - No. 6 5. Main St PAYMASTER ROBBED IX OHIO. One Dead, Another May Die as Result Of Attack. Pittsburg, Pa., March 10.?Two pay-masters of coal companies were held up today in different sections of Eastern Ohio and were robbed of sums approximately $5,600, and as a result of the attacks, one man is dead and another may die. The country is much excited, and tonight blood? hounds are in use in an attempt to ferret out the highwaymen. Edward McGann, paymaster of the Dexter Coal Company, and Robert Pommering, an assistant, left this city for the mine of the company at Brilliant, Ohio. They carried in a satchel $4,000, the weekly pay roll of the mine. While driving to the mines from the train two men over? took them and beat them into insen? sibility, escaping with the satchel. Farmers found the two men sensele?? beside their bugg the Gill Hospita Ohio. The coal compa out officers with at ?teubenvltl* Unaic Itati : s^nt .mvi. of? fered a reward of $1,000 for the cap? ture of the robbers. Pommering to? night is reported fatally hurt, while McGann is in a critical condition. Hardly had the excitement quieted when another hold-up was reported from Zanesville. George Evans, aged 60, paymaster of the Muskingum Coal Company, was shot from am? bush at Buckeye, ten miles down the river from Zanesville, and died at 11 o'clock tonight. He was robbed of $1,600, the weekly pay roll of that company. Evans was walking from the company offices to the mines, half a mile away. There is no clue to the robber, ex? cept some torn pay envelopes that strew the ground near where Evans was attacked. A posse is searching that section of the country, and bloodhounds, too, have been put into use. Makes Three Times as Much Raising Poultry as Teaching School. "Do you know the prettiest farm? ing sight I have ever seen?" asked one of the county agents at a meet? ing of Southern demonstration a&ents a few days ago. And he answered his own question in this way: "It was a flock of 250 or 300 beautiful Brown Leghorn hens, all alike, which came running to their owner at her call when I visited her poultry farm the other day. This > uated at the Nor College several >e; school until she quit 11 t< star! | try raising a year ... ^0j. A&4 now she is already making three times as much as she made teaching school!"?Progressive Farmer and Gazette. 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